chicago reader

“The year’s most perfect show.”

“There’s magic being made in the brick-walled, fishnet-hung basement of Café Voltaire. The principal magician is a dead poet named Dylan Thomas; but his posthumous power is supported by a company of directors, actors, and designers whose sensitivity to shifting moods and meanings makes Under Milk Wood one of the loveliest and funniest off-Loop shows in this writer’s 25 years of local theatregoing.”

Lerner news

“This is the consummate re-creation of a fertile work.”

new city chicago

“This production proves a shoestring, non-Equity theatre is as capable of excellence as its bigger-budgeted Equity cousins.”

chicago tribune

“A wonder … beautifully captures the thousand pleasures of Thomas’ great poem-play ... Deftly interwoven into the feel of the play are the sounds of the town — bells, birds, cows, waves, chimes, children at play, as well as folk songs set to guitar, accordion and flute. Performing without a conductor, the skilled eleven members of the ensemble play their symphony with awesome precision and, considering the intricate timing required by the sound effects, choral counterpoint, interjections, song cues and elaborately textured background noise, it’s a major feat.”

chicago sun-times

“Delicately and ingeniously directed.”

Windy city times

“This production whispers and jingles and tick-tocks into life in a way that would have made Dylan Thomas proud … The production is not only coherent, but it has a rare elegance and sophistication … Certainly not to be missed.”